infelicity

Examples of infelicitous

infelicitous
For some choices of arguments, this default interpretation is unlikely, resulting in a sentence which is judged infelicitous out of context.
This passivized verb form is boiled is infelicitous if it describes the natural process of water boiling.
Whenever the more encompassing concept is mentioned in the consequent, the result is unacceptable or infelicitous.
In contrast, a biased infelicitous condition would provide two referents for the non-relativized noun but only one possible referent for the relativized noun.
We might now want to say that this statement is infelicitous for pragmatic reasons.
Relatively non-gradable property verbs, such as co3 ' wrong ', are normally infelicitous with direct comparison as well (68).
No difference in interpretation accuracy was found between felicitous and infelicitous conditions or between biased and neutral conditions.
His pragmatically infelicitous third person subjects thus account for 9% (16/179) of all third person contexts in which a null subject was required.
It is also possible, of course, that the speaker's attempt at being witty with idioms was infelicitous because the blend is simply not funny.
That is why (7a) and (8a) would be infelicitous if for-adverbials were used.
In this context, the phrase is infelicitous : ' beyond one's ken ', in its ordinary usage, means beyond one's powers of comprehension.
The infelicitous implications of their philosophical foundations manifest themselves throughout the article.
Though it is in principle possible, the supine is sometimes stylistically infelicitous.
The use of then in this monologue would be pragmatically infelicitous.
Ne-cl is infelicitous in the predicatefocus reply to this question.
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